A Why Learn Hangul?
Hangul is the main writing system of Korea. It’s famous for being easy to learn and in many
linguistic circles is considered genius. Prior to its invention in the 15th century, Korean used
the same Chinese characters as China and Japan. Japanese and Chinese children spend a
significant part of the school years devoted to learning the often complicated Chinese
characters, but hangul can be learned in a few days for an average adult.
If you aren’t convinced yet as to how cool hangul is, here are the top five reasons you should
learn hangul:
1. It’s easy. WAY easier than you imagine!
Some people say you can learn it in just two hours.
2. It’s cool. Seriously… none of your friends can write it!
Unless your friends are all studying Korean or ARE Korean you will be the coolest
person around when you say, and show them, that you can read and write Korean!
3. Your accent improves.
You have spent much of your life reading Roman letters (ABC) in a certain way. If you
learn Korean with those letters you will often still read them the same way and not have
a great Korean accent. If you learn hangul, you won’t have to fight your English
speaking habits!
4. Korean Romanization can be a bit confusing. It’s just easier to learn hangul.
With combinations like “SEO” and “SAE” and “SEU” it’s pretty easy to screw up the
Romanization of Korean. Hangul fixes this problem. Besides… imagine if a Korean
person decided to learn English only using hangul characters!
5. There is no choice!
Because hangul is so easy, It’s rare that a book teaching Korean teaches using Roman
letters. Even this book teaches 100% in hangul after the hangul lesson section.
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